“My mom used to always tell me, ‘You need to stop doing them drugs.’ She used to say she was gonna call the cops on me, so I bribed her. I'd buy her cigarettes because I knew she liked to smoke. Then she wouldn’t call the cops. I was 15 years old then, and I had money because I sold a lot of drugs. My dad was a dealer; I’d get drugs from him sometimes too. I was 14 when I started. Friends I was hanging with, we started smoking cigarettes first, then small drugs. Smaller drugs led to bigger ones, and it escalated from there. Drugs led to money. You know, the love of money is the root of all evil. It was a successful life financially though; it gave me experience on how to handle money."
“Then some things happened. I was on the run from the police, and my dad got me to come stay with him in Missouri where he was living at the time. It wasn’t a very good neighborhood. Bad things were going on there, and it showed me what I didn’t really want in life. Being with my dad taught me what could happen if you chose to live that way, you know? It was one of the smartest things I ever learned.
"Things are different now. Better. For the past two years, I've been going in the right direction. I'm still working on getting off drugs though; I'm still recovering. It's a work in progress. The way it happened was, I was walking down the interstate here in Memphis. I'd been hitchhiking for hundreds of miles, on and off, and this van pulled over. It was a Christian group. They whipped out a flyer and explained what they did and how they did it; they said they helped save souls. So I got in the van with them."
“Then some things happened. I was on the run from the police, and my dad got me to come stay with him in Missouri where he was living at the time. It wasn’t a very good neighborhood. Bad things were going on there, and it showed me what I didn’t really want in life. Being with my dad taught me what could happen if you chose to live that way, you know? It was one of the smartest things I ever learned.
"Things are different now. Better. For the past two years, I've been going in the right direction. I'm still working on getting off drugs though; I'm still recovering. It's a work in progress. The way it happened was, I was walking down the interstate here in Memphis. I'd been hitchhiking for hundreds of miles, on and off, and this van pulled over. It was a Christian group. They whipped out a flyer and explained what they did and how they did it; they said they helped save souls. So I got in the van with them."
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